Vinaya (2): The Mahavagga
by T. W. Rhys Davids | 1881 | 156,382 words
The Mahavagga (part of the Vinaya collection) includes accounts of Gautama Buddha’s and the ten principal disciples’ awakenings, as well as rules for ordination, rules for reciting the Patimokkha during uposatha days, and various monastic procedures....
Mahavagga, Khandaka 6, Chapter 7
1. Now at that time the Bhikkhus who were sick had need of various kinds of gum as-medicine. They told this thing to the Blessed One.
'I allow you, O Bhikkhus, the use of gums as medicine—hiṅgu[1], hiṅgu lac, sipāṭikā[2], taka 3, taka-patti 3, taka-paṇṇi[3], sajjulasa[4], and whatsoever other gums are used for medicine, and impart (&c., as in chap. 4, down to:) is guilty of a dukkaṭa offence.'
Footnotes and references:
[1]:
Ferula assa foetida: Böhtlingk-Roth (sub voce) say it comes from Persia. It is much used in Hindu medicine. See Wise, 'Hindu System of Medicine,' pp. 152-154.
[2]:
The correct spelling is probably sivāṭikā. Böhtlingk-Roth under Sivāṭikā and Hiṅgu-śivāṭikā say it is the same as Vaṃśa-pattrī.
[3]:
Buddhaghosa merely says these are kinds of lac. According to Wise, p. 152, lākṣā is used as errhine.
[4]:
Resin.